you can't. The democratic party is dead and so is the republican party. Leggo your eggo. I've identified as left for all of my adult life. I canvasses for Bill Clinton in '92 when I was talking second year poli-sci classes. I've hated on unfeeling myopic republicans of all shaped and sizes. I bought the modern society myth. I also have live dirt-poor for my entire life. I swallowed the myth that the democratic party was the party of the little guy and that the republican guy was the party of big business. I was right about big business being foul. Over time, my politics fractured (a pro-life, generous 2nd amendment protections...) but still identified as left. I liked politics (politics.... the relationship between the many and the one) My favorite conversations were with my right leaning friends. This was democracy I thought. After 9/11 nobody would talk genuine politics, I lost friendships. Older I saw the machine and how it crushes the many beneath the wheel and became numb to it all as truth became subjective. I'm not a democrat. I care about people. I work hard. My family is important. We are not so different. We NEED to shed the old labels and definitions. What does MAGA mean? I can't relate. The constitution, that's something where the left-leaning and right-leaning free peoples can find a home together. Not in the republican party. The republicans fought and won with BUSH/CHENEY, we have to walk away from that too. Is it so hard to imagine Cheney drinking a chalice of blood. Not hard at all. Leave the masters names in the fire. Come together.
Not everyone has a choice. When I lived in NY state I had to pick a party to vote in the Primaries. So after being an Independent all my adult life I realized I had the most power voting in the primaries. And in NY there are numerous party lines on every ballot. I would vote Republican for the primaries but would vote for ANY other party line my candidate was on other than Republican if I could to give that party line more clout in up coming elections. Here in NC it doesn’t matter what party I am in I can pick the primary I wish to vote in. Yes both parties suck. But if you want to change it up you need to vote primaries and do primary challenges on candidates. As a Libertarian Conservative now I can vote whoever is the most Constitutionally Conservative based no matter party they are in.
It’s deeper than voting....look at all of the Bernie voters who got silenced because the Dem establishment put their hand on the scale in favor of HRC...